Shade and Sunshine Painting

Early morning sun warms the shadows in Toluca Lake, California. I’m a cityscape oil painter in love with intense color and deep contrast. The fluid light, dramatic vistas and stark landscapes of California and the Southwest provide endless inspiration for my work. I paint in many layers with a vibrant palette and expressive brushstrokes to share my vision of an essence of the urban experience. I’m drawn to the tension between nature and the hand-of-man. I ask the viewer to observe situations so common that we experience them unconsciously; to see places and objects in a new light, and to consider that they are rich in meaning and beautiful.